Resume template · Updated October 2026
Human resources resume template
Short answer
Daniel suits human resources: its rounded grey heading pills give a warmer, people-focused look, and its skills grid shows HR practice areas and systems before the jobs. The fictional sample is an HR business partner at an Indianapolis home health company who moved in from recruiting, with employee relations cases, faster leave decisions, a stay-interview program that cut nurse turnover and a SHRM-CP.
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Laura is a fictional HR business partner (SHRM-CP). Replace every detail with your own before you send it.
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Why Daniel suits a human resources resume
Daniel sets headings in rounded grey pills, a softer look than the rule-based templates that suits a people-focused profession, and its skills grid sits above the jobs so HR practice areas and the HRIS you know appear early. Underneath, it is still a single column of plain text.
Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta is the conventional black and grey business layout, a safer pick for HR roles in banking, law or government.
What goes in each section, in Daniel's order
Daniel prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. Give your HR scope (generalist, business partner, talent acquisition, compensation, HR operations), the population you support (size, locations, workforce type) and the industry. HR practice shifts with the workforce: a union plant, a hospital and a software company each need different experience.
- Skills. Daniel prints three unlabelled columns before the jobs: HR practice areas, then systems (HRIS, recruiting system, payroll), then people skills. Name the HRIS precisely; Workday, UKG and ADP each take time to learn.
- Work Experience. HR results show up as people numbers: turnover and retention, time to fill, case volume and resolution time, leave processing time, engagement scores, training completion. Pair each programme you ran with its effect, and keep every employee detail out.
- Education. HR, business or psychology degrees on one line, with a master's in HR or an MBA first if you have one.
- Certifications. SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR or SPHR with the year. SHRM describes the SHRM-CP as for people who perform general HR and HR-related duties in work that is operational in nature.
The sample resume as text
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Laura Bennett
HR Business Partner (SHRM-CP)
Indianapolis, IN | laura.bennett@example.com | (317) 555-0185 | linkedin.com/in/sample-laura-bennett
HR business partner for 900 employees across three regions of a home health company, covering employee relations, leave, performance and recruiting support for field clinical staff. Moved into HR from recruiting, so ties people decisions back to filling and keeping hard-to-hire roles.
Experience
HR Business Partner, Hoosier Home Health, Indianapolis, IN (03/2022 to Present)
- Partner with three regional directors on workforce planning, performance and employee relations for about 900 clinical and office staff.
- Investigate and resolve about 40 employee relations cases a year, documenting findings and recommending outcomes, with counsel involved on complex cases.
- Run FMLA and leave administration for the regions, cutting average leave decision time from nine days to four.
- Launched a stay-interview program for field nurses; first-year nurse turnover fell from 38% to 29% over 18 months.
- Rolled out new performance review forms and trained 60 managers on writing goals and documenting feedback.
Recruiter, then HR Generalist, Circle City Medical Group, Indianapolis, IN (06/2017 to 02/2022)
- Filled about 120 clinical and administrative roles a year, bringing average time to fill from 52 to 38 days.
- Moved into generalist work in 2020: onboarding, I-9 verification, benefits enrollment and handbook updates.
- Built the onboarding checklist used across 14 clinic sites.
Education
BS, Human Resource Management, Wabash Valley University (05/2017)
Certifications
- SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), SHRM (2023)
Skills
Employee relations investigations, Leave administration (FMLA), Performance management, Workforce planning, Recruiting and onboarding, HR policy writing, Workday HCM, UKG Pro, Workday Recruiting, Excel, Coaching managers, Difficult conversations
How to make the sample yours
Use employment law terms where you applied them
The FMLA covers employers with 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks, and an employee becomes eligible after 12 months and 1,250 hours of service. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees. Mention a law where you administered it or trained managers on it, not as a list.
Tie HR work to the business
Turnover in a hard-to-fill role, time to fill, manager capability, fewer escalations to counsel. The sample connects a stay-interview program to nurse turnover.
Keep cases anonymous
Describe employee relations work by type and volume ("about 40 cases a year, including harassment and attendance"), never by person or detail.
Adapt for talent acquisition or HR operations
Recruiters lead with roles filled, time to fill, offer acceptance and sourcing channels; HR operations staff with payroll accuracy, HRIS projects and data quality.
Translate from management or recruiting
Operations managers who handled hiring, discipline and scheduling, and agency recruiters moving in-house, can enter HR as generalists. Rewrite people-management tasks in HR terms.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- human resources
- HR business partner
- employee relations
- workplace investigations
- performance management
- FMLA
- leave administration
- talent acquisition
- onboarding
- HRIS
- Workday
- retention
- workforce planning
- policy development
- SHRM-CP
Mistakes to avoid
- Any detail that could identify an employee or a case.
- "People person" in place of programmes, case volumes and retention numbers.
- Every employment law listed by name with no sign you administered any of them.
- Legal conclusions. HR investigates, documents and recommends; counsel advises on the law.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 5 of 5 | 8 of 8 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 5 of 5 | 8 of 8 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 5 of 5 | 8 of 8 |
Frequently asked questions
How do I get into HR with no HR experience?
Start from people tasks you already do: hiring, onboarding, scheduling, training, handling complaints. HR assistant, coordinator and recruiting coordinator roles are common entry points, and a credential shows commitment.
Should I list SHRM-CP or PHR?
List whichever you hold, with the year. If you are choosing one to study for, check which credential employers in your area name in their postings.
How do I describe employee relations work safely?
Give volumes, case types and outcomes in aggregate, such as cases closed and average time to resolve. Never include names, departments or details.
Which HR metrics belong on a resume?
Turnover and retention, time to fill, offer acceptance, case volume and resolution time, training completion and engagement scores. Show a before and after for programmes you ran.
How long should an HR resume be?
One page for coordinators and generalists; two for HR managers and business partners with several programmes and teams to describe.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Daniel PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 5 section headings and all 8 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
Guides and templates for this resume
Sources, checked 29 October 2026
We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.
- SHRM: SHRM-CP (for people who perform general HR and HR-related duties or pursue an HR career; work operational in nature)
- Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 29 U.S. Code 2611 Definitions (FMLA) (eligible employee: 12 months and 1,250 hours; 50 employees within 75 miles; employer: 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks)
- Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 42 U.S. Code 2000e Definitions (Title VII) (employer: fifteen or more employees in each of twenty or more calendar weeks)
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